Despite Java’s impressive history and language stability, Kotlin was recently included as an approved programming language for Android in 2017.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...

1. It’s super easy to set up. Developers have actually been able to use Kotlin for some time via a plugin but as of Android Studio 3.0, it’s going to be as simple as ticking a box to ...

Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps.Kotlin’s primary sponsor is ...

Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin.While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains popular ...

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

Its survey of 2,000 developers for its JVM 2020 report finds that while 87% of JVM developers still use Oracle Java, the population that use Kotlin has jumped about 130%, from a 2.4% share last ...

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action. The already ...